There is one God

We believe in one God, Who is the Creator of heaven and earth, and the Ruler and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible in heaven and in the earth. We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the written Word contained in the sixty-six books of the Bible. The Word of God is the full and complete revelation of God’s ordinance for man, which is the supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and practice as contained in 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; and Jude 3.

The Godhead

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; co-eternal, in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory; and having the same attributes and perfection (Deuteronomy 6:4; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Matthew 28:18-19).

Jesus Christ

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man (John 1:1, 2, 14, 18; Luke 1:35). We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our complete redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, propitiatory and substitutional sacrifice, a redemption made sure to us by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Romans 3:24, 25; 5:8-10; 1 Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7). We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God the Father where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor and Advocate (Acts 1:9-11; Romans 8:34; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 1:3; 6:19-20; 7:24-25; 9:24; 1 John 2:1-2).

Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, possessing all the attributes of deity; and that, in essence, He is equally God. We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration and sanctification, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling equally and permanently with every believer, and sealing them unto the day of redemption. We believe that every unregenerate person, the moment he exercises faith in Christ as Savior, immediately possesses the Holy Spirit. We believe that He is Divine Teacher who guides believers into all truth; that He sovereignly bestows spiritual gifts upon each believer; and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled (controlled) with the Spirit.

Man and Original Sin

We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God but through Adam’s sin the whole race fell, became alienated from God and inherited a sin nature, is totally depraved, possesses no spark of divine life,,, and of himself, is utterly helpless to remedy his lost condition apart from the grace of divine life, and of himself, is utterly helpless to remedy his lost condition apart from the grace of God.

Salvation

We believe that salvation is the gift of God to sinful man by grace and received solely by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who accomplished complete redemption by His substitutionary death and shedding of His precious blood.

The Church

We believe that the universal church, which is the body and the bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of the present age which began at Pentecostal and shall be terminated at the rapture. We believe that the establishment and continuance of the local church is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures, being composed solely of believers. These local churches worship on the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day. We believe physical baptism, while symbolical, is prerequisite for local church membership (Acts 8:35-38).

The Personality of Satan

We believe that Satan is a personal being, the highest rank of all angelic creatures; that through pride, became the author of sin and the cause of the fall of man. He is the open and declared enemy of God and man; he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire (Genesis 3:1-19; Isaiah 14:12-17; Matt. 4:21; 25:41; Rev. 20:10).

The Blessed Hope

We believe that the next great event in the fulfillment of prophesy will be the imminent, personal, pre-tribulation return of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into heaven both His own who are alive and remain unto His coming and also all who have fallen asleep in Him. This event is the blessed hope set before us in Scripture, and for this we should be constantly looking (John 14:1-3).

The Tribulation

We believe that the translation of the church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel’s seventieth week (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 6:1-19,21) during which the church, the body of Christ, will be in heaven. This entire period of seven years will be a time of judgement on the whole earth, at the end of which, the times of the Gentiles will be brought to a close. The latter half of this period will be the time of Jacob’s trouble (Jeremiah 30:7), which our Lord called the great tribulation (Matthew 24:15-21, Revelation6:1; 19:21).

The Second Coming of Christ

We believe that the period of great tribulation will be climaxed by the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth as He went, in person, on the clouds of heaven, and with great glory to introduce millennial age; to bind Satan and place him in the abyss; to lift the curse which now rests on the whole creation, to restore Israel to her own land and to give her the realization of God’s covenant promises, and to bring the whole world to the knowledge of God (Deuteronomy 30:1-10).

The Eternal State

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46). We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43). We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain after death, in conscious misery until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited; they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgement, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment (Matthew 25:41-46).

Historicity of the Bible

We believe in the full historicity and perspicuity of the Biblical record of primeval history, including the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on creation, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge, and the origin of nations and languages at the tower of Babel in the book of Genesis.

Creation

We believe in the Genesis account of Creation, and that it is to be accepted literally, not allegorically nor figuratively. We believe that man was created directly in God’s own image and after His own likeness; that man’s creation was not a matter of evolution or evolutionary change of species, or developments through interminable periods of time from lower to higher forms. We believe that all animals and vegetable life were made directly, and God’s established law was that they should bring forth only “after their kind” (Gen. 1:1-2, 25; Ps 8:5; John 1:2-3)